Vast echos long faded from hardwood
Lost amidst the suffering
Long held fervor gives way to fever
A hallway you can never leave
Anchored by the stain
Of memory
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Cherry paper lanterns
Floating on a black sea
Sent missives into the night
No response
Anxious and the waiting kills
Flame drifting
Last snuff of light
Sequences doomed for repeating
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Burn amidst coals made cherry
The sweet smell of burnt flesh dancing
Rapturous
Stepped into flames in confidence
Now just wishing the flames seared faster
Nerve endings screaming then going silent
A game played out
Directed by hand to, inevitable, disappointment
Unable to breathe, or speak,
One step from dissolution
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The pains are growing deeper
Grinding in
Driving down
A miracle trapped in breathing
Tongue growing heavy
Sinuous twisting shadow
Birthing exhausted light
Soft touch, soft words
Vanilla floral
Memories trapped in dreaming
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Itlxc
Doshlu
Af iutl
Coum beaae
Bo chael ifataal
Aedtrol
Doasai
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the world is full
of tastes
of smells
of sounds
of touch
of gravitic waves
and more senses and more
to deny ourselves sensations
to deny ourselves the painful beauty
out of moderation or some shyness that such action will make us seem less
not to me I say, not to me
revel in life, if you desire it, take a piece of it;
anything else is blasphemy
it makes profane that which is holy
this world may be all we have
live it
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From behind cold glass
Nature inspires
The turning leaf, the calming wind
Confined, constrained by the city
It’s wild amidst order
The false impression
But freed of the city it bursts forth
Animal and unknown
Night without the city lights
The hum, sturm and drang
Civilization
Off the edge of the map
The subtle cut of living without a net
But then night falls
And all else sleeps
The panic sets in
Get out, Get Out, GET OUT
The cold slips in
Stealing sleep
Darkness and boredom awake
Waiting for dawn
And release.
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Pains accumulate
Like scars on the heart
Each rip, each tear
Each razor thin cut
Self inflicted
Or arrows from within the comfort zone
Just past bearing
Growing louder in the quiet
Soft whispers too cruel to hear
But they lodge like flint
Brittle they break
Fragments working deeper
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Note: There was a version of this that was joyous. Sometimes the shadows in the heart, they never go away
Consumed by the silence
Giving way to quiescent heart
Slow beating,
faltering
failing
drowning
Wake me with your dreams
Heart beats louder faster
Roaring
WAKE ME
stir up my blood
Let passion guide
Let honor temper
Let honesty…
All is dust and lies
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I whisper the words of prayer
To the setting sun,
Joyous that it departs the sky
Night is falling
And I am undone
Unraveling out to the edges
A thousand thousand strands
Pressing against the borders of the flesh
Pressure building until I explode
Expanding out to the infinite stars
I connect to it all
The vastness of space wraps me up
Warmth against the cooling earth
Each being living, feeling
Slow shudder in birth and spinning down
Cells dying and burning in rebirth
Each moment
Each minute
Each second until time is lost
The clarity
The cresting of apogee
The melancholy the moment before the fall
Pelgris 